Traumatic brain injury is an insult to the brain caused by an external force that results in an impairment (transient or permanent) of cognitive, behavioral, emotional, or physical function. Traumatic brain injury encompasses shearing injury, which might be seen in a shaken infant, as well as penetrating injury from a foreign body, such as a bullet. This article addresses the recovery phase and...

OBJECTIVE To report self-rated health and factors influencing health after traffic-related mild traumatic brain injury. DESIGN Population-based, cross-sectional study of traffic-related mild traumatic brain injury occurring between 1 December 1997 and 31 November 1999 in Saskatchewan, Canada. SUBJECTS Subjects were 929 adults making a personal injury claim after a traffic collision. Inclusi...

Traumatic chiasmal syndrome is one of the rare etiologies syndrome, characterized by optic chiasm injury following head trauma. The main visual defect associated bitemporal hemianopia with macular splitting; however, it can present a variety other defects and neurologic signs. authors report case complete after trauma, multiple frontal skull base fractures no deficits, or hypothalamic-pituitary...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Chronic post-traumatic headache attributed to mild head injury is a somewhat disputed headache diagnosis. A main object of this study was to assess the validity of this diagnosis by studying the headache pattern of concussed patients that participated in one historic (n = 131) and one prospective cohort (n = 217) study. METHODS Head injury patients were recruited from t...

Eighty-two patients with severe head injury were tested on the Wechsler Memory Scale and compared with 34 normal subjects. Head injured patients had severe memory difficulties, particularly on Logical Memory and Associate Learning. Severity of head injury (post-traumatic amnesia duration) was related to poor memory, as was increasing age, but both persisting neurological signs, including dyspha...

Five cases of early post-traumatic status epilepticus in childhood are reported. In all cases the trauma was apparently of a minor nature and the seizures appeared within two hours after injury. In none of the cases was a significant intracranial clot detected, nor was lasting cerebral damage evident. This is in contrast with adults, where status epilepticus after head injury is thought to be a...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the risks of mild traumatic brain injury and neck injury associated with head banging, a popular dance form accompanying heavy metal music. DESIGN Observational studies, focus group, and biomechanical analysis. PARTICIPANTS Head bangers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Head Injury Criterion and Neck Injury Criterion were derived for head banging styles and both popular heav...

This article describes ischemic symptoms following post-traumatic vasospasm in a patient with mild traumatic brain injury. A 17-year-old female presented with left hemiparesia, confusion and right mydriasis 14 days after a moderate head injury resulting in brain contusion and basal cisternal sub-arachnoid hemorrhage. Bilateral supraclinoidal internal carotid artery vasospasm and a right anterio...